There is no hard and fast rule on oracle that you have to do things by this way only. As Jeff suggested, OFA is the best bet to undestand how oracle would start placing things be default. To have more idea on the mount points just refer the installation maual for your platform of choice.


Other than that of backupup, analyzing and etc depends on your shops requirements. There are a number of backup startegies available under technet.oracle.com.

Good luck

Sam